Motivation Is The Key. More Than Training,

However I Am Looking Forward To The Two New Grands Prixs Both Shanghai And Laguna Seca Are Fantastic Tracks And It Will Be Good To Race At Them.

How Do Ferrari Know What I'm Doing Next Year When I Don't Know What I'm Doing Next Week?

To Be A Great Motorbike Racer, The Most Important Thing Is Passion For The Bike.

You Need To Realise That, If You Want To Go On, You Have To Work Hard. If You Dwell Too Much On Your Past Successes And Say "well, I Have Won Nine World Titles And More Than 100 Races", You'd Rather Stay Home. The Sport, Your Rivals, The Tyres, Your Motorcycle, Everything Changes So Instead You Need To Work More To Be Stronger. If You Don't, You're Finished.

In 2002 The Yamaha Was At More Or Less The Same Level As The Honda, Better In Some Ways, Worse In Others. But In The Winter Of Last Year Between 2002 And 2003, Honda Made A Big Step Forward And It Seemed As If Yamaha Couldn't Quite Match That Improvement.